Granite 4.2 8B
Apache-licensed small reasoning model for governed enterprise use.
Granite 4.2 8B is a dense reasoning model from IBM suited for mathematics, code generation, multilingual dialogue and agentic workflows, with full, low-effort and no-thinking modes.
- Provider
- IBM
- Type
- Language model
- Released
- Aug 31, 2026
- Context window
- 131K tokens
- Max output
- 118K tokens
- Price
- $0.060 input / $0.25 output per 1M tokens
- Input
- text
- Output
- text
- Open weights
- Yes
- License
- Apache 2.0
Best for
- Local & on-device
- Enterprise
- Extraction & classification
- High volume / low cost
Strengths
- Apache 2.0 with IP indemnity
- Tiny footprint
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